Big excitement for the Modern Family cast, with Julie Bowen and Ty Burrell both winning at the Second Annual Critics’ Choice Awards.

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY Should Modern Family receive another nomination in the Outstanding Comedy, what episodes will you submit?

STEVE LEVITAN After much debate, we decided “Aunt Mommy,” “Baby on Board,” “Door to Door,” “Punkin Chunkin,” and “Leap Day.”
Let’s talk about the finale. Why are Gloria and Jay getting a baby but not Cam and Mitchell?
We liked the idea of setting up the audience for one thing and then having it go a different way with some sort of surprise. We also have really begun to love Aubry Anderson-Emmons as Lily, and what she can bring. We all fell in love with her around here. She is utterly charming. We have a lot to play with her, so it dawned on us that Cam and Mitchell already went through having a baby, so maybe it would feel repetitive. Maybe it would be nice to give it to someone else. Whose lives would it screw up the most? With Jay and Gloria, we really like what it will do to that household.
It was quite a surprise.
We didn’t want anybody to know so we cleared the set. Nobody knew about it. It wasn’t in the script. We only told two people at the studio (20th Century Fox TV) and one at ABC. We swore them to secrecy. We did pull the actors in and told them because it all affects them very, very specifically, but we didn’t tell the kids. We didn’t want to burden them with a big secret! It’s a hard one to keep.
Gloria’s reaction was great.
I have a little story about that. In our mind, we thought she would say it with a bit more trepidation, being scared. But the one we went with was from Sofia Vergara’s first take. It caught us so off guard. I was sitting about five feet from her and I got goosebumps and my eyes welled up. We shot five or six more but we never got anything better than that.

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LONDON — HBO’s “Game of Thrones” won the Golden Nymph for drama series and 20th Century Fox’s “Modern Family” nabbed the comedy series prize at the Monte Carlo Television Festival Thursday.
Thesping honors went to Denmark’s Mille Dinesen for “Rita” and Germany’s Henning Baum for “The Last Cop” in the drama series category, and Tina Fey for “30 Rock” and Jason Priestley for “Call Me Fitz” in the comedy skein competish.

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New photos in the gallery of cast members at the Cars Land Grand Opening At Disneyland California Adventure.

Stephen Colbert and Allison Janney have signed up for DreamWorks Animation’s Mr. Peabody & Sherman, based on the iconic cartoon series.

Also joining the project are Ellie Kemper (Bridesmaids, The Office), Ariel Winter (Modern Family) and Stephen Tobolowsky (Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax, Californication).
DreamWorks Animation is so high on Mr. Peabody it is pushing up the release of the film from March 14, 2014 to Nov. 8, 2013. The movie swaps places with the studio’s Me & My Shadow, another high-profile project that is a combination of CGI and hand-drawn animation.

Based on Jay Ward’s classic cartoon, Mr. Peabody is the world’s smartest person — only he’s a dog. When he and his “pet” boy Sherman use their WABAC time-traveling machine without permission, events in history spiral out of control and it is up to the duo to put things back on track.
Modern Family’s Ty Burrell will voice the role of Mr. Peabody, while Max Charles, who stars as a young Peter Parker in The Amazing Spider-Man, voices the role of Sherman (both castings were previously announced).
Colbert will play Paul Peterson, Mr. Peabody’s nemesis. Janney plays his wife, Paula Peterson, and Winter, their daughter Penny Peterson (the lovable bully who gives Sherman grief).
Mr. Peabody marks Colbert’s second animated feature after Monsters vs. Aliens, also from DreamWorks Animation. He’s made guest appearances on several animated television series, including The Simpsons and American Dad.

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